Budapest will build five new museums by 2018 at a total cost of 75 billion forints (EUR 240 million), Minister for Human Resources Zoltán Balog announced at a press conference on Monday. He said the design of the new museums will represent both state-of-the-art architecture and a respect for the Hungarian capital’s historical heritage.
The Hungarian ambulance service is getting faster, safer and more efficient thanks to one of the Government’s strategic partners, Daimler AG, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in the town of Zsámbék, north-central Hungary, where the National Ambulance Service received ten new Mercedes Sprinter ambulance vehicles.
The EU Environment Ministers have held talks on the proposal that would enable member states to ban the cultivation of GMOs on their territories. Hungary was represented at the talks by Endre Kardeván.
Almost every EU member state agreed upon the fact that the regulation of the European Police College (CEPOL) should be independent from Europol and should have its own legal foundations.
The Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine should be signed as soon as possible, Foreign Minister János Martonyi declared following the extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
Almost half of applications submitted to the Millenáris Széllkapu idea competition, which awaited entries on the potential functions of a public park to be created on the area where the soon-to-be-demolished building of the former Ministry of Industry can still be found on Margit Avenue, came from people who are not architects, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga said at the ceremony for presenting the awards for winners of the project.
The Sándor Scheiber Awards were presented by Minister of State for Church, Minority and NGO Relations György Hölvényi from the Ministry of Human Resources, on Monday in Budapest.
We plan to increase the area of land that is irrigated in Hungarian agriculture, because only around 100 thousand hectares are currently watered by farmers, whereas permission has been granted to water 200 thousand hectares, Zsolt Feldman said on Monday at a press conference at the National Water Directorate.
“We’ve taken a step towards a more child-friendly legislation, but the real help lies in prevention: to succeed in initiating actions which raise awareness about threats and if something wrong happens, letting children and adults know what they should do” – stated Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics this Monday in Veszprém, just before a session of the campaign managed by the Ministry under his control, running under the name ‘The Internet Does Not Forget’.
Hungarians are in safety both in Hungary and in Transcarpathia in western Ukraine, the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday.